Thursday, November 15, 2012

LIC Bar will be closed for awhile

It has been shut since Hurricane Sandy, and it will remain that way until Con Edison repairs a major transformer.

“This is costing me a fortune,” said owner Brian Porter, who also worries that the bar’s popularity will decline, or his employees will leave while he waits on Con Ed.

Until the power is restored, the bands wait, the vendors are on hold and the six staffers are waiting patiently to get back to work.

When the storm hit, the saloon’s basement was flooded with seven feet of water that destroyed a piano, an organ and all the amplifiers. The bar’s willow tree, a neighborhood icon, was so badly damaged that it had to be cut down.

However, LIC Bar (45-58 Vernon Blvd.) – located inside a 100-year old building– held up well on the whole. The hardwood floors, bare brick walls and antique wood bar all appear undamaged. Nevertheless, everything was coated with salt– mostly from the East River, but also from the rock salt the owner had stockpiled for the winter.

I'm sorry, but it just is not in me right now to sympathize with some yuppie/hipster LIC bar. Nobody paid attention to the complaints of longtime residents losing their homes, businesses and entire neighborhood from the vast overdevelopment of the area in the last ten years. LIC Bar and the rest of the new, "up and coming" LIC can cry me a river.

Water came up from Anable Basin and along 44th Drive, where River's Edge is located, and blew out a transformer. Besides the LIC bar, a taxi fleet, the New York Blood Center and the School Construction Authority all went dark, although the garage and Blood Center have been running generators.

Also the park behind the 108th precinct saw almost all the trees uprooted; they were cut down and chopped up today.

Smoking a cigarette and inhaling toxic fumes and getting poisons into your body is not.... for about 40 years.

You and those responsible will not be around when the young hipsters and the young toddlers who are encouraged to live and spend time on a toxic brownfield that gets baptized from time to time by Newtown Creek reap the dividends from your brainstorms.

You got to Brooklyn around the Gowanus Canal and talk like this you would get lynched.

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